(CNSNews.com) - Legalized abortion has led to increased crime, according to a recently published study of people born before and after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
(...)
Lott's study argues that after the high court ruled that states must allow abortion, more permissive sexual behavior and less contraception produced three things: an increase in out-of-wedlock births, a reduction in the number of children placed for adoptions, and fewer married parents.
I'd personally surmise that it's not just abortion alone, but also generally growing liberalism in society which leads to increased crime, as liberalization, we know very well, has encouraged people, particularly youth, to engage in harmful, destructive, dangerous, unproductive activities simply because "they feel good" or because they're claimed by liberals/"progressives" to be "human rights".
"(...)When something seems less costly, there's more of it."
Lott noted there are many good single mothers doing an excellent job rearing their children. But those children almost never get as much attention as children in a two-parent family, he said. Further, children in single-parent families statistically have more social development problems and thus statistically are more likely to be criminals.
Well, it's definitely "politically incorrect", but to censor this study would be unconstitutional, wouldn't it?
Nevertheless, one may well see this, and other similar studies, as debunking the anti-life conspirators' ("progressives" who speak of a "right to choose" in terms of infanticide but interestingly in nothing else) unproven claims that abortion supposedly reduces crime rates simply because they think that less "unwantedness" leads to less crime, but never went beyond the claim into the realm of actually offering proof thereof.
It makes sense that increased permissiveness and a growing "anything goes... don't worry; be happy... no one'll get hurt... it's all about human rights..." attitude in society leads youth to engage in risky behavior such as fornicating around like bunnies and so on. And we know very, very well that "progressive" governments never, never, never did anything to expand actual access to abortion "service" at all, meaning that there's very, very few places to access such "service". Not only that, poor women cannot afford the "service" even if they're lucky enough to actually find a place that performs the "service".
The "progressive" movement has been dangerously irresponsible in promoting this devil-may-care fornicatory behavior without actually guaranteeing (even when "progressive" parties are in power) easy access to abortion and funding therefor for everyone everywhere. Therefore, the "progressive" movement has harmed, not helped, society and individuals. Sure, they made it so that folks can do fun, exciting, arousing stuff without worrying about unpleasant, inconvenient consequences.
Besides, "progressive" governments also made the welfare system so that the more babies one has, the more welfare one gets, so they actually provided a financial incentive to women NOT get an abortion. See, many women have obviously exercised their "right to choose" and chose, not to abort, but instead to have babies for cash. Therefore, there's been so many poor families that keep having babies for cash. Such parents who'd do this obviously wouldn't be likely to actually care for the children, nor raise them to be law-abiding, productive citizens. They may well even be abusive. Now, can you see the cause of crime and deviance? It's all traced back to the "progressive"/"liberal" movement!
Now we have another reason to realize that the "progressive"/"liberal" movement is unethical, immoral and bad for society and individuals.
All because of the fun things they promote without educating people about the consequences of engaging in these fun things. Such gross irresponsibility! I therefore charge the "progressives"/"liberals" with criminal negligence and reckless disregard for the well being of society and individuals!
